Anne Wojcicki Quotes

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

It's OK to make mistakes... Try different things.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

I have always said that you have to fail. If you do not fail, it means you have never taken enough risks.

There's always space for me to grow and I think that experimenting and making mistakes is gonna get me to this position where I'm trying to be is always changing.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

I love my mistakes. That's how you learn! You have to keep making mistakes. That's how you expand!

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.